IoT Healthcare: Challenges and Innovations

IOT IN SMART CITY
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Masters in IT – Networking
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Milestone 1

Abstract:
The purpose of this report is to make the research proposal for the topic that is selected. The topic
that is chosen for the further report is IoT healthcare. The report will foloow a proper template. At first the
topic will be introduced that the introduction of IoT healthcare. Then the literature review will be
discussed in the report. In the literature review the total importance of the project will be discussed that is
the importance of the IoT healthcare. In the recent time the industry of the healthcare emerged a lot as it is
adapting various new technology. The IoT is widely accepted on the healthcare industry. These feature
enables to integrate the IoT in the healthcare department. The integration of the IoT brings lot of
advantages as it is highly beneficial for the healthcare. It is expected that by the year 2025 IoT healthcare
solution will reach to a massive mark of $1 trillion. This will enable a fully personalized, on-time and
accessible healthcare solution for the human being. The IoT enables the wireless monitoring future in the
health care industry that enable live tracking feature of the patients health. It uses a sensor that will be
attached with the human body which will rack the health measurements of the patients and the doctors and
healthcare personal will be able to track the medical condition of the patients. The smart lens technology
of google introduced connected contact lenses. The main feature of the lenses is that it has the ability to
measure the amount of glucose in a patient having diabetes. The real time data are stored in the cloud and
can be access anytime by the patients or by the doctors. There are several limitations as well, like the
devices that are using for the healthcare using a power from battery and there is a chance that the battery
power may end after a certain time period in that time the data will not be tracked. There is also a chance
of network connectivity as the connection is wireless. The IoT empowers the devices to enhance
simultaneously by monitoring regularly and by reducing the cost of the healthcare services which is
engage actively in the data collection and in data analysis. In the report further all the aspect regarding the
IoT health care will be discussed and analysed.

Milestone 2
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Introduction to the Domain and
Problem:
Using the internet of things in the all parts
of the society in the recent time have developed a
great impact. From the small industry to the large
industry all have adopted internet of things widely.
The healthcare sector is main among them that
adapted the IoT to provide better services in the
healthcare. The health care sector in the recent year
had a great boost because of adapting the IoT.
The IoT provide huge benefit to the health
care sector and in the other sector as well. With the
huge benefits there are many challenges that the
IoT face in the sector of the health care (Islam et al.,
2015). Most of the challenges are identified while
implementing the internet of things into the health
care sector. The challenges that the IoT faced
during the development is given below:
Data Vulnerability:
As the whole system will be implemented
using the internet so there is a chance of potential
risks. The main concern that the organizations faced
is because of the data security. The IoT is mainly
uses the framework of the internet. In the health
care sector all the data are stored in the cloud
database which consists the data about the patients
and the health care associates (Amendola et al.,
2014). So it is necessary to protect the data as the
data contains lots of confidential data. The health
care needed to adapt a high security measurements
to protect the data from any kind of vulnerability. It
is necessary for the health care sector to follow the
HIPAA regulation to maintain the privacy of the
data.
Another issue with the data security is
associated with the fact that if the devices stolen
then the data will also leaked. This kind of situation
is beyond the IoT network scope.
Multiple Device Integration:
In the IoT health care many and computers
are used to incorporate with the internet of things

framework. To provide a better health care service
that it is necessary to adapt modern technologies
and the facilities, and these will be compiled into
the IoT framework. This is the main factor that
affects the IoT implementation in the healthcare
sector is homogeneity. The multiple devices are
needed to be secure in a way so that they will work
without facing any issue and will not affect the
implementation of the IoT in healthcare.
Data Collection Accuracy:
The whole process of IoT implementation in
the healthcare consists various data. And it is
necessary to collect the data properly so that the
data will be used properly for further use. The main
challenge that is associated with the collection of
data is that, as the amount of the data that is
collected is very large (Tyagi, Agarwal &
Maheshwari, 2016). So, it is necessary to check the
authenticity of the each data which in most cases
does not done properly as there are no experts
appointed who will check the data authenticity.
While collecting the data that are sensitive,
the lack of data analytics felt that a professional
data expert or a programme is needed which will
analyse the collected data. It is required to identify
the source of the data that are critical, and that is
became a major problem for the healthcare
associates and the patients. The reason behind this
is as the time passes the amount of data also kept
increasing.
Innovations in the technology and
connectivity:
In the recent time the technology is
changing very rapidly which can cause a concern
for the patients and the health care officials.
Various sensors are used to track the health record
of the patients and for that it is required to have a
single device not a regular update in every now and
then (Darshan & Anandakumar, 2015). The old
sensors might not be able to cope up with the
modern technology and the connectivity which can
cause a major problem while implementation IoT in
healthcare sector.